ANZAC Day is a local, authentic occasion to explore our role and place in New Zealand history and society, to explore global geography, to consider ideas around citizenship and duty, especially when compared to the background of current world events.
The Victoria Cross for New Zealand (VC) obverse view
Donald Forrester Brown Victoria Cross Medal – on display at the North Otago Museum for ANZAC weekend.
Jane Macknight, Director of the North Otago Museum is delighted to announce a special event at the museum for ANZAC weekend.
On Saturday 23 April and Sunday 24 April 2016 from 1.00pm – 4.30pm the Museum will display the original Victoria Cross medal awarded posthumously to Oamaruvian Donald Forrester Brown on 14 June 1917.
The Director of North Otago Museum, Jane Macknight says: “Brown is one of only 23 New Zealanders awarded this medal. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest military decoration awarded for ‘valour in the face of the enemy’ to members of the armed forces of Commonwealth countries”
Sergeant Donald Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment 1NZEF was awarded the medal for his actions during the opening day of the Somme campaign on 15 September 1916 for charging and capturing key enemy machine-gun positions.
In Oamaru Brown is honoured with an oak tree planted at the junction of Severn Street and Awamoa Road which forms the centre of the radiating Memorial Oak Scheme.
Jane Macknight says: The Brown VC is still held by members of the Brown family and it’s an incredible honour for Oamaru to be able to have it on display over the ANZAC weekend. The Brown family are holding their reunion in Oamaru over the same weekend and when the offered it to us for public display we jumped at the opportunity”.
The medal will be on display in the Museum temporary gallery, together with other Brown family military medals and artefacts and related collection items from the North Otago Museum and Archive collections. All welcome. http://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz
The reason for wearing rosemary is two-fold: firstly, the smell of rosemary is thought to improve the memory, with reports of Greek scholars wearing rosemary in their hair to help them while they studied.
Secondly, rosemary has a direct link with Gallipoli, where our troops fought in 1915- rosemary can be found growing wild all over the peninsula.
Mason Toki
My teacher last year told me Lawrence Binyon has no LEGS.
Did you know? the reason ANZAC biscuits have rolled oats is they have a slow energy release time.
Miss McLennan
ANZAC day to me has great significance. My father was in the Scots Guards and went to Egypt in "active service". He is a member of the RSA in Oamaru. For many years he has given the North Otago RSA report and read the "Ode of Remembrance" at the ANZAC service in Hampden. This year is his first year he is unable to perform that task.
Mr Alex Ramsey was our neighbor in his 90's who also went down to the Hampden ANZAC service
My mother, Mary McLennan, played the piano for the ANZAC service in Hampden for many years.
That is my dad sitting on the right waiting for his turn to say the "Ode of Rememberance" at the Hampden ANZAC day service 2015
*FOR THE FALLEN With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They*went with songs to the battle, they*were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
*Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam. But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night; As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain.
The poem’s smooth, rhythmic flow and formal, elegant language, embody the profound sense of respect, admiration and grief that hangs over modern acts of collective remembrance. Yet the poem was not written by a soldier who had seen action but by a civilian less than a month after the start of the fighting. Born in Lancaster in 1869, Laurence Binyon was keeper of oriental prints and drawings at the British Museum when the First World War began in August 1914. He was an established and well-respected scholar, poet and author. Aged 45, Binyon was too old to enlist, but in 1915 he volunteered as an orderly with the French hospital services, a task he undertook again the following year as the casualties rolled in from Verdun. After the war, Binyon continued at the British Museum until his retirement in 1933. He was appointed professor of poetry and literature first at Havard and then Athens and died following an operation in 1943.
http://elearning.tki.org.nz/Teaching/Curriculum-areas/Social-sciences/ANZAC-day
What are you doing for ANZAC Day?
ANZAC Day is a local, authentic occasion to explore our role and place in New Zealand history and society, to explore global geography, to consider ideas around citizenship and duty, especially when compared to the background of current world events.http://medals.nzdf.mil.nz/category/d/d1.html
Donald Forrester Brown Victoria Cross Medal – on display at the North Otago Museum for ANZAC weekend.
Jane Macknight, Director of the North Otago Museum is delighted to announce a special event at the museum for ANZAC weekend.
On Saturday 23 April and Sunday 24 April 2016 from 1.00pm – 4.30pm the Museum will display the original Victoria Cross medal awarded posthumously to Oamaruvian Donald Forrester Brown on 14 June 1917.
The Director of North Otago Museum, Jane Macknight says: “Brown is one of only 23 New Zealanders awarded this medal. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest military decoration awarded for ‘valour in the face of the enemy’ to members of the armed forces of Commonwealth countries”
Sergeant Donald Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment 1NZEF was awarded the medal for his actions during the opening day of the Somme campaign on 15 September 1916 for charging and capturing key enemy machine-gun positions.
In Oamaru Brown is honoured with an oak tree planted at the junction of Severn Street and Awamoa Road which forms the centre of the radiating Memorial Oak Scheme.
Jane Macknight says: The Brown VC is still held by members of the Brown family and it’s an incredible honour for Oamaru to be able to have it on display over the ANZAC weekend. The Brown family are holding their reunion in Oamaru over the same weekend and when the offered it to us for public display we jumped at the opportunity”.
The medal will be on display in the Museum temporary gallery, together with other Brown family military medals and artefacts and related collection items from the North Otago Museum and Archive collections. All welcome. http://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz
Resources to check out ...
http://www.wicked.org.nz/Themes/Hot-topics/Anzac-Day
http://walkingwithananzac.tumblr.com/
http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/resources-learning/high-interest-topics/anzac-and-anzac-day
http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gallipoli/gallipoli2.htm#
The reason for wearing rosemary is two-fold: firstly, the smell of rosemary is thought to improve the memory, with reports of Greek scholars wearing rosemary in their hair to help them while they studied.
Secondly, rosemary has a direct link with Gallipoli, where our troops fought in 1915- rosemary can be found growing wild all over the peninsula.
Mason Toki
My teacher last year told me Lawrence Binyon has no LEGS.
Did you know? the reason ANZAC biscuits have rolled oats is they have a slow energy release time.
Miss McLennan
ANZAC day to me has great significance. My father was in the Scots Guards and went to Egypt in "active service". He is a member of the RSA in Oamaru. For many years he has given the North Otago RSA report and read the "Ode of Remembrance" at the ANZAC service in Hampden. This year is his first year he is unable to perform that task.
*FOR THE FALLEN
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They *went with songs to the battle, they *were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
*Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
The poem’s smooth, rhythmic flow and formal, elegant language, embody the profound sense of respect, admiration and grief that hangs over modern acts of collective remembrance. Yet the poem was not written by a soldier who had seen action but by a civilian less than a month after the start of the fighting.
Born in Lancaster in 1869, Laurence Binyon was keeper of oriental prints and drawings at the British Museum when the First World War began in August 1914. He was an established and well-respected scholar, poet and author.
Aged 45, Binyon was too old to enlist, but in 1915 he volunteered as an orderly with the French hospital services, a task he undertook again the following year as the casualties rolled in from Verdun.
After the war, Binyon continued at the British Museum until his retirement in 1933. He was appointed professor of poetry and literature first at Havard and then Athens and died following an operation in 1943.